Canadian singer Helen Pridmore focuses on experimental music and improvisation. With Seattle musicians Lori Goldston (cello) and Mark Hilliard Wilson (guitar), she will explore graphic scores by John Cage and Earle Brown — music to see and to hear, with visual interpretation of the score as a crucial part of the performance. In the second set, accordionist Kyle Hanson joins for improvisations.

Delgani String Quartet
Fri. Jan. 19, 8 PM; $20 general/$12 students

For the opening night of the inaugural Spontaneous Combustion New Music Festival, the Delgani String Quartet from Eugene, OR performs a new work by Benjamin Krause inspired by the Oregon Cascade Range.The concert also includes the first string quartets by Seattle composer Alan Hovhaness and Hungarian György Ligeti. This is Delgani’s premiere performance in Seattle.

Two veterans of the Seattle electronic music scene perform solo sets and a duo set. Marc Barreca will play electro-acoustic loop based compositions with a laptop and MIDI accordion. Rob Angus will perform pieces from his recording projects Ethnoloopography and Slow Rain on vintage sampling keyboards.